FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT JONAH COHEN NOVEMBER 6, 2006 505-298-3662
Court Denies Democrat Efforts to Suppress Republican GOTV “If no signs of intimidation techniques have emerged yet, launch a ‘pre-emptive strike.’”-- 2004 Democrat Election Day Manual
(Albuquerque, NM) -- The New Mexico Democrat Party pulled a page out of the 2004 DNC Playbook when they attempted but failed to get a temporary restraining order to shut down the Republican phone banks in Congressional District I.
Today the judge denied their injunction and Republican Party volunteers will continue phoning voters.
The Republican Party made more than 22,000 phone calls to voters on Saturday, November 4, as part of the party’s Get Out The Vote effort.
One voter, who shared the same name as two other Republicans, complained that she received a phone call from a campaign volunteer giving her inaccurate information about her polling place.
When the voter then called the Republican Party—with the number, mind you, which she was provided originally—she was given correct information and the nominal error was ironed out.
Despite this, she contacted the Democratic Party who had their lawyers immediately file a frivolous lawsuit to shut down Sunday’s phone banks.
Due to the long lines at Early Voting locations, the Republican Party redoubled its efforts to contact voters on Saturday, November 4, after reports of lines as long as 3 hours. “County Clerk Mary Herrera failed to provide adequate and equitable Early Voting locations in Bernalillo County which resulted in long lines, 3-hour waits and some voters leaving before voting,” said Marta Kramer, executive director of the Republican Party of New Mexico. “I shudder to think of Tuesday’s train wreck.”
“Mary Herrera clearly took care of Democrat voters by placing 10 of the 12 Early Voting locations in Democrat legislative districts and gave Republican voters no choice but to stand in line for hours if they wanted to vote early,” continued Kramer.
“Ironically, as the Democrats had their lawyers in court maliciously accusing us over a handful of honest semantic errors, it turned out Richardson’s campaign was guilty of the same snafu,” added Jonah Cohen, communications director of the Republican Party of New Mexico. “A leading New Mexico journalist reported on his blog that he received a mailer from Richardson that gave him the wrong polling location and name.”
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